The State Government says the Commonwealth must restore health funding to Queensland, as it has done in Victoria.

The Queensland Government claims the Commonwealth reduced earmarked health funding by more than $100 million after revising population figures.

It made similar cuts in Victoria, but has just reversed them.

Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney says the Federal Government has finally admitted its cuts are hurting state health systems.

"Tanya Plibersek, the Federal Minister, this morning has been quoted as saying that that money's been restored because the Federal Government cares about Victoria," he said.

"They should show that they care about Queensland equally and restore the money to Queensland health boards."

Southern 'outrage'

Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has accused the Federal Government of discriminating against Queensland.

"Queensland should get that money back because it equals thousands of operations in Queensland," he said.

"It means we won't have to cancel elective surgery for non-urgent cases.

"Also it will mean that we'll be able to save some of the clinical jobs which are now currently at risk in Queensland as a consequence of this."

Mr Springborg also says Queensland's Labor MPs and unions are partly to blame for the loss of Commonwealth funding.

He says outrage in the southern state was stronger.

"In Queensland, the union movement has been a cheer squad for [Federal Treasurer] Wayne Swan in supporting the cuts," he said.

"In Victoria, the Labor party, even federal members, have been standing up and calling upon the Federal Labor Government to reinstate the funding, and in Queensland, the Labor Members of Parliament have gone missing."

'Misleading'

But Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek says it has already written to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman threatening to deal directly with hospitals unless his Government better manages its health budget.

Ms Plibersek says she has to act where state governments are ripping money out of their health systems.

"I've seen in Victoria now $107 million taken out of local hospitals," she said.

"We're going to take money from the Victorian Government that would otherwise have gone directly to them and we're going to give that to local hospital administrators.

"If we have to do that in Queensland, I'm open to doing that.

"It's an extraordinary action to take - it'll take funding out of the hands of the Queensland Treasury and put it into the hands of Queensland hospital administrators, if the Campbell Newman Government prove to continue to be as poor a manager of the Queensland Health system as they've been till now."

Ms Plibersek says the State Government is deliberately misleading Queenslanders.

"The Queensland Government has cut $3 billion from its hospital system," he said.

"One of the first things that it did on coming to Government is sack more than 4,000 staff.

"In recent times they've been trying to blame the Federal Government for that."

But Federal Opposition health spokesman Peter Dutton says the Government's decision to reinstate health funding to Victoria puts a lie to its claims there were no cuts.

"It was a cut - the health services knew that the money was being cut," he said.

"It should be frankly reinstated to Queensland and New South Wales in exactly the same way that the Government's announced overnight that $170 million will be reinstated in Victoria."

'Stop the feud'

The Australian Medical Association of Queensland (AMAQ) says the funding feud between the state and federal governments must stop.

AMAQ president Alex Markwell says the political battle is affecting patient care and service delivery.

"It's time to talk about having a single funder of health services and this was a proposal that the national Hospital and Health Reform Commission put forward some years ago," she said.

"It was deemed to be too complex back then but I think what we've seen now is a good example of why it's worth considering that as a future long-term solution."

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